¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

²⁰ For the creation ^(A)was subjected to ^(B)futility, not willingly, but ^(C)because of Him who subjected it, ^[a]in hope ²¹ that ^(D)the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation ^(E)groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

The New Heaven and Earth

21 Then I saw ^(A)a new heaven and a new earth; for ^(B)the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.